insolation

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Many scientists assume that insolation flux, the amount of energy Venus receives from the sun, caused a runaway greenhouse situation that ruined the planet.

From Science Daily • Apr. 22, 2024

Reduce insolation by just 1 percent and you reduce heating by 3 degrees Celsius.

From Slate • Aug. 5, 2023

Harden blossomed into an insolation superstar in Houston but has largely deferred to Embiid with the Sixers.

From Washington Times • Jun. 29, 2023

They are maps back to community, to the natural state of humans as social beings in an age of fracture and insolation.

From New York Times • Jun. 7, 2023

All over the world the least cloudiness is in the evening, when the sum of the combined effects of radiation and insolation is least.

From Sounding the Ocean of Air by Rotch, A. Lawrence